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Hilal Isler


writer. editor.

educator.


Twin cities. Turkish Roots.


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about

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Hilal Isler’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Brooklyn Review, New York magazine, the LA Review of Books online, and elsewhere.


She's been awarded residency at Yaddo, and MacDowell, was a 2019 Roxane Gay writing fellow with the Jack Jones Literary Arts Association, and a 2022 Periplus Collective fellow.


She is a 2023 McKnight Foundation Fellowship recipient in the category of creative prose, her novel-in-progress selected by author Alexander Chee, as a work of promise.


Her writing has been recognized and funded by the Jerome Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania, and she is founding editor of the Hennepin Review.


She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her family.


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select writing

kismet

The believer

RIYADH

NY MAGAZINE

EARTHA KITT

PARIS REVIEW

Scorpion

baltimore REVIEW

*winner: best small fictions, 2023

baldwin

lit hub

KHADIJAH NUMBER TWO

MCSWEENEY'S

*STORY AVAILABLE IN PRINT ONLY

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

LA REVIEW OF BOOKS

hello@reallygreatsite.com

A RARE & WONDERFUL MAN

BROOKLYN REVIEW

something for nothing

wildness

*nominated: pen/robert j. dau short story prize , 2021

turkish lit

the rumpus


9/11

NEW MOONS

*STORY AVAILABLE IN PRINT ANTHOLOGY ONLY (RED HEN PRESS)

Rustic Bookstore Element

2018, 2019

Loft Literary Center Fellow, via the Jerome Foundation & the National Endowment for the Arts (2018)


Roxane Gay/Jack Jones Literary Association Fellow (2019)


MacDowell Fellow

(2019)


awards & fellowships

Rustic Bookstore Element

2021

Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers (nominee)

Rustic Bookstore Element

2022, 2023

Yaddo Fellow (2022)


Periplus Fellow (2022)


MRAC/McKnight Foundation Grant (2022)


Best Small Fictions (2023)


McKnight Foundation Fellow, Creative Prose (2023)


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